UK - A teenager was blown 25ft off a railway bridge on to the tracks below by a 25,000-volt electric shock. Sam Cunningham's friends called emergency services, who alerted the rail network to stop trains on the main line between Manchester and Wigan. The 16-year-old is now being treated for severe burns in hospital, where experts say he is "lucky to be alive". Sam was retrieving a rugby ball on the bridge near his home in Wigan on Thursday evening when a charge leapt from overhead powerlines into the steel toecaps of his boots. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Jump TV